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<span class=large>THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI</span><br/> HIS REIGN AND MINISTRY
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CHAPTER 6
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Nephi writes of the things of God—His purpose is to persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham and be saved.  Between 600 and 592 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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And</span> now I, Nephi, do not give the genealogy of my fathers in <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/6/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 4: 15.">this</a> part of my record; neither at any time shall I give it after upon these <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/6/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 9: 2.">plates</a> which I am <sup>c</sup><a href="1_ne/6/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Writing of.">writing</a>; for it is given in the record which has been kept by my <sup>d</sup><a href="1_ne/6/1d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Ne. 1: 17 (16-17); 1 Ne. 19: 1 (1-6).">father</a>; wherefore, I do not write it in this work.
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For it sufficeth me to say that we are descendants of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/6/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 5: 16 (14-16).">Joseph</a>.
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And it mattereth not to me that I am particular to give a full account of all the things of my father, for they cannot be written upon <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/6/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jacob 7: 27; Jarom 1: 2 (2, 14); Omni 1: 1, 30.">these</a> plates, for I desire the room that I may write of the things of God.
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For the fulness of mine intent is that I may <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/6/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 1: 4 (3-4); John 20: 31 (30-31).">persuade</a> men to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/6/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 41 (41, 45, 51).">come</a> unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved.
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Wherefore, the things which are <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/6/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gal. 1: 10; 1 Thes. 2: 14; Heb. 13: 21; W of M 1: 4.">pleasing</a> unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who are not of the world.
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Wherefore, I shall give commandment unto my seed, that they shall not occupy these plates with things which are not of worth unto the children of men.
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